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Air Asia found!

Six bodies of Air Asia crash victims are found in water alongside tragic passengers' luggage after wreckage of jet is discovered

Bodies of crash victims spotted floating in sea off coast of Borneo Island

At least six bodies recovered from the water by Indonesian naval vessel

Officials have now confirmed wreckage is from AirAsia flight 8501

Navy spokesman earlier claimed 40 bodies were retrieved from Java Sea

But this figure has now been corrected to six by search and rescue teams

Rescue
workers searching for the doomed AirAsia flight 8501 have recovered six
bodies from the Java Sea, Indonesian search and rescue teams have
confirmed.

Bodies
were discovered alongside luggage, a plane door and an emergency slide
in the water 100 miles off the coast of Borneo Island earlier today,
following three days of searching.

Officials
have confirmed that the bodies and debris found in the Java Sea off
Indonesia are from flight 8501, and a naval spokesman said the rescuers
remain 'very busy' retrieving the victims.

Despite
an earlier claim by a navy spokesman that 40 bodies had been recovered,
the figure was later corrected by the search agency Basarnas, which
said that six bodies had been found so far.

Before
darkness fell in the area, search teams identified a shadow that they
believe to be the plane's fuselage beneath the water, which is
relatively shallow at just 160 feet at its deepest point. Many of the
remaining victims are thought likely to still be on board the aircraft

The
Airbus A320-200 was 42 minutes into its flight from Surabaya in
Indonesia to Singapore on Sunday when it vanished with 162 people on
board.

Live Indonesian television news footage showed at least one corpse floating in the water earlier today

Officials have confirmed that the
bodies and debris found in the Java Sea off Indonesia are from flight
8501, with naval rescue workers (pictured) said to be 'very busy'
locating and retrieving the victims

An oxygen tank from doomed AirAsia flight 8501 was found floating in the sea off the coast of Borneo island

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Tragic: The
flight went missing from radar at 6.18am local time - six minutes after
last communication with air traffic control - while travelling from
Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board. Search and rescue
workers spotted a number of bodies and debris floating in the water this
morning

This morning several pieces of red, white and black debris were spotted in the Java Sea near Borneo island.

The bodies were found in the Java Sea about six miles from Flight 8501's last communications with air traffic control.

Search
leader Bambang Soelistyo said: 'As the search and rescue coordinator, I
can 95 per cent confirm [this is] debris and objects from the plane.
The five per cent is simply because I haven't seen personally seen
them.'

Indonesian
President Joko Widodo also confirmed plans to visit both the crisis
center in Surabaya and the suspected crash location near Pangkalan Bun.